First snow · Minnesota
When is the first snow in Minneapolis?
Snow in the next 5 days?
No. There’s no snow in the Minneapolis forecast for the next 5 days.
It’s 34°F in Minneapolis right now.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Minneapolis’s first measurable snow usually lands around November 7.
Minneapolis greets the first snow like an old coworker: a nod, no fuss, and five more months of each other.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for MinneapolisFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Minneapolis is number 18 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Burlington, Vermont: around November 7
- Sioux City, Iowa: around November 7
- Youngstown, Ohio: around November 7
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between October 16 and November 23. A typical Minneapolis winter adds up to about 52 inches of snow.
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How much snow Minneapolis gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Minneapolis-St Paul area, winters 1991 to 2020 (30 with complete records), via the Applied Climate Information System. First snow here means the first day with at least a tenth of an inch.